One of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on diaries, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoritative account of a landmark event in Jewish history. Here, too, is a portrait of the vibrant culture that shaped the you
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising
β Scribed by Richie, Alexandra
- Book ID
- 108693991
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780374286552
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